Friday, February 28, 2014

I had the opportunity to do a new cover for the second edition of the great Ramsey Campbell's THE LAST REVELATION OF GLA'AKI. I was very happy for the chance- the first cover I did was done without my having been able to read the book- and although they seemed pleased, I didn't feel the image really represented the spirit of the story very well! It looks more like a Kaiju story than what it really is! The new one (bottom) is much more true to mood of the thing, at least I think so!
The book will be out very soon I believe, and it's a great story. I am proud to be associated with it, and with Ramsey--- and with the extraordinary Pete Crowther of PS!
(Our line of Lovecraft books is due to start coming out soon, more on those anon.)

On
Thursday, March 6, 2014, Southern California's CAPS, the Comic Art Professional
Society, will launch an ongoing series of eBay auctions of original comic art.
Its goal is to raise funds for medical care for Sharon Sakai, the wife of
respected cartoonist and longtime CAPS member Stan Sakai, creator of the samurai
rabbit USAGIYOJIMBO. Sharon has been battling a debilitating
brain tumorfor some time; after an extended
hospital stay and convalescence, she is currently at home, but her condition
requires 24-hour care and medicine that costs more than the Sakai's insurance
covers. 100% of the proceeds of these auctions will go directly to Stan and
Sharon Sakai to help pay their ongoing medical expenses.

The CAPS auctions will be conducted
through eBay.com beginning on Thursday, March 6, with a new set of auctions every
following Thursday. Each auction, sold under the seller name of
"CAPSauction", will be ten days in length with twenty to forty items
in each set of auctions. The donations of original artwork and collectibles
(including newly created art unique to this event, vintage comic book pages,
comic strips, illustrations, animation art, limited edition statues, and IDW
Artist's editions books) number over three hundred with new items arriving
every day.

Many of the pieces featuring Usagi
Yojimbo will appear in a new oversized hardcover book from Dark Horse, THE
SAKAI PROJECT: ARTISTS CELEBRATE THIRTY YEARS OF USAGI YOJIMBO, which will be
released on July 23, 2014. All proceeds from this book will go to Stan and
Sharon Sakai. Much of the custom Usagi Yojimbo art created for this book will
also be sold as a part of CAPS' online auctions.

These fund-raising auctions will be
promoted through ComicArtFans.com, and the CAPS - COMIC ART PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETY Facebook page where you will be able to see updated information such as
when certain pieces will be auctioned.

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If you would like
more information on CAPS' Sakai Benefit Auction or Dark Horse's THE SAKAI
PROJECT book, please contact Steven Wyatt at stevew@bigwowcomicfest.com.

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Pete

WELCOME TO VONSHOLLYWOOD!

Pete Von Sholly's storyboards for over 100 feature films include Dinotasia, Mars Attacks!, James and the Giant Peach, Darkman, The Mask, The Shawshank Redemption, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV, The Waterdance, The Green Mile, Click, The Mist and more. Pete has written and illustrated four graphic novels: Morbid, Morbid Volume 2 and Extremely Weird Stories, (Dark Horse Comics) and SPINECRAWLER from IDW- plus three satiric magazines for TwoMorrows, Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters (2 issues) and Comic Book Nerd which parodies comics fans and fanzines. Self-published titles from Vonshollywood Press include Sergeanstein, Dinosaur Circus and Here Doesn't Come the Flying F-ck. UPDATE- Pete has a pile of books coming next year (and later this one) from PS Publications including a collection of his gag cartoons, Fabulous Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible, several illustrated versions of classic Lovecraft stories and covers for Jess Nevins’ The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes and also a cover for S.T. Joshi’s novel The Assaults of Chaos from Hippocampus. His epic foldout mural Pete Von Sholly’s History Of Monsters is forthcoming from Abrams as well